A Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos on Monday fixed November 3, 2017, to hear an appeal filed by wife of President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, challenging the temporary seizure of her $5.9m lodged in her Skye Bank account.Patience, through her lawyer, Chief Ifedayo Adedipe (SAN), urged the Court of Appeal to overturn an April 26, 2017, interim order of Justice Mojisola Olatoregun of the Federal High Court in Lagos that the $5.9m found in her Skye Bank account should be temporarily forfeited to the Federal Government.An order was also made freezing a number of accounts linked to Mrs Jonathan, including an Ecobank account, with a balance of N2.4bn, opened in the name of one La Wari Furniture and Bath Limited.
The EFCC had in a supporting affidavit attached to the ex parte application, claimed that the funds were suspected to be proceeds of Patience’s alleged criminal activities.
An EFCC operative, Musbahu Abubakar, who deposed to the affidavit, stated that Patience opened the Skye Bank account on February 7, 2013, and used it to allegedly warehouse proceeds of crime.
According to Abubakar, the former first lady made several cash deposits in United States dollar into the account, through a former Special Assistant to ex-President Jonathan, Waripamo-Owei Dudafa, and a State House steward, Festus Iyoha.
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